Time crystals could power future quantum computers
A time crystal formed on top of a superfluid in ultracold conditions. Credit: Mikko Raskinen/Aalto University. A glittering…
Quantum mechanics trumps the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale
Two-oscillator quantum engine. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adw8462 Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven…
German Scientists Transmit Single Photons From a Plane to Earth for Ultra-Secure Communication
IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 German researchers successfully transmitted individual photons from a moving aircraft to a ground station.…
How Black Holes Produce Powerful Relativistic Jets
It is an established scientific fact that most galaxies in the Universe have a supermassive black hole (SMBH)…
Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain X-ray beams aren’t used just by doctors to see inside your body and tell…
Radical-enhanced photo-activated ultralong organic phosphorescence
Photophysical properties of the guests in crystal Three compounds r-MOP, s-MOP, and MOP were designed as the guests,…
Framework models light-matter interactions in nonlinear optical microscopy to determine atomic structure
From left to right, Albert Suceava, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering; Venkatraman Gopalan, a professor…
The Promise of Cat Qubits
Managing Editor’s Note: Continuing with Quantum Week here at Brownstone Research, today, Jeff dives into the sensitivity of…
Generation of harmful slow electrons in water is a race between intermolecular energy decay and proton transfer
Schematic representation of intermolecular coulombic decay and proton transfer in liquid water. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61912-w…
World’s most powerful nuclear fusion experiment sets new record
Wendelstein 7-X in Greifswald, Germany, the largest stellarator, has set a new high bar for sustained fusion performance.…
Scientists Gave a Quantum Computer a ‘Lie Detector Test’ and It Passed
The superconducting chip. Credit: Zhejiang University In a lab in Hangzhou, China, a small chip may have just…
Astronomers detect radio signals from a black hole tearing apart a star—outside a galactic center
Artist’s interpretation of two massive black holes (MBHs) within a galaxy. A tidal disruption event unfolds around the…